Food For Healing

Work In Progress

August 13, 2010 in Uncategorized | 1 comment

Hey all. I bet you’ve been wondering why I haven’t posted in awhile. I have decided to take a new direction with my blog.

Instead of blogging every day about the food I ate that day; that has been getting very boring for myself. I have decided that I will be more creative, and more FUN FOOD focused.

I have decided that I will be starting a more of a recipe based food blog. I will be finding new recipes, trying them out, taking fabulous photos and sharing it all with you. I think this will help spice my life up, my blogging life, and yours as well. This will help all of us try new things more often and I think it will be a lot more interesting!

I want to try out a new recipe at least once a week. Maybe once I am on this track for awhile I will post again more regularly, but first I need to get out of this little rut that I am in.

So bare with my as I make all these changes, and I hope you enjoy!

Special Brownies

August 6, 2010 in 100 Day Challenge, Baking, Breakfast, Snack, Supper, Tracking Calories | No comments

Day 16:

WORKOUT: 2 hours walking at the Fringe

FOOD: 1250 calories consumed

Breakfast: Trail Mix

Afternoon Snack: cheese string and blueberries

Late Afternoon Snack: Couscous

Snacks: Extreme Pita loaded veggie pita, Starbucks Soy Chai Latte, and a brownie

So first let me start off with this Brownie that I ate tonight, you’ll never guess what is IN it, and no its not illegal. The secret ingredient was "garlic", yes that’s right, GARLIC! Couldn’t even taste it at all.

Have you ever had any dessert foods that had something different in it, such as garlic?

It is getting sort of late now, but I just wanted to get in a quick post before bed, we’ve gotta get up early tomorrow. So I will see you back here tomorrow!

Busy Bee

August 5, 2010 in 100 Day Challenge, Breakfast, Lunch, Snack, Supper, Tracking Calories, smoothies | No comments

Day 15:

Workout: House cleaning (and lots of it, I’ve been a busy bee)

Food: 1270 calories consumed

Breakfast: Chocolate Chip Clif Bar

Lunch: Trail Mix

Snack: Cheese string and FV coffee

Supper: Wild Forest Mushroom Couscous, fresh green/yellow beans and pickled beets

Snack: 1/2 cookie, blueberries, and smoothie

Yay tomorrow is Friday! Aren’t you excited?? I AM! Any plans for the weekend? I’m not quite sure what we have planned yet, we’ll figure it all out tomorrow.

Anyways, I am kind of pooped. I have been a busy bee doing so much cleaning tonight. Have a great night and a fantastic Friday!

Star of the show

August 4, 2010 in 100 Day Challenge, Breakfast, Lunch, Snack, Supper, Tracking Calories, smoothies | 1 comment

Day 12:

Food: 1400 calories consumed

Breakfast: blueberries and cherries

Snack: London Frog Soy Latte

Supper: Spinach and Feta Phyllo and veggies.

Dessert: Black forest cake

Snack: blueberries and cherries, cheese string

Day 13:

Food: 1050 calories consumed

Lunch: Tim Horton’s bagel and cream cheese

Snack: Fruit smoothie

Supper: Eggs and toast

Snack: Cherries

Day 14:

Food: 1000 calories consumed

Snack: Cheese string and blueberries

Supper: BBQ’d Portabella Burger

We BBQ’d it for about 5 minutes each side and slapped on some BBQ sauce to taste. Easy-Peasy!

Dessert: Cookies N Cream Ice cream

Snack: Blueberries and Silk Chocolate milk (4oz)

Supper tonight was totally experimental, and it turned out FAN-tastic! I’m super excited to be able to have a "burger" with the rest of the family if I want, without feeling left out, and without eating meat. Super quick and easy to make too. Definitely the Star of the show today!

Sorry I’ve kind of been MIA the past couple of days. Things have kind of been a little crazy but I have been keeping up with my end of the challenge. So today is just a quick recap of the past 3 days and what I’ve eaten, pretty much no pictures though, my camera kind of went on a little strike (aka I was lazy). I’ll get back to my normal posts starting tomorrow again!

Tomorrow is already Thursday; yay almost the weekend again! I love having a long weekend and a short work week.

Have a great evening!

Lost: Willpower. Reward Offered

August 1, 2010 in 100 Day Challenge, Breakfast, Snack, Supper, Tracking Calories | No comments

Let me start off by saying, Happy August 1st! Where has this year gone by already, seriously?

Day 11:

Workout: walking

Food: ~1300 calories consumed

Breakfast: blueberries and cherries

I enjoyed the sun with some fruit for breakfast and my VegNews.

Snack: Organic corn chips with hummus and salsa, and a London Frog Soy Latte

Supper: Spinach salad with poppy seed dressing and a small piece of garlic toast

Snacks: 1/2 spinach and feta phyllo, cherries, and other random junk food

Oops where did my willpower go? Reward Offered for the safe return of it. Okay maybe its not THAT bad, but I did get a little more carefree than the last few days. Nothing to beat myself up over though, tomorrow is a new day!

Tonight was absolutely gorgeous, we did some walking around and seen some wildlife (the usual, deer and elk). I had about an hour and a half nap late this afternoon before supper. So right now I am still wide awake but I’m sure from all the fresh air we had today I will sleep no problem tonight still.

I’m so sad that the weekend is almost over, it has gone by WAY to fast.

Well I’m going to go enjoy the rest of the evening here, so I will see you all back here tomorrow.

The Real Challenge

July 31, 2010 in 100 Day Challenge, Breakfast, Snack, Supper, Tracking Calories | No comments

Day 10:

Workout: light house cleaning (dishes and vacuuming)

Food: 1304 calories consumed

Breakfast: blueberries and cherries

Snack: Starbucks Soy Chai Latte

Supper: Hashbrowns, corn on the cob and salad with ranch

Dessert: Lemon cheesecake pie

Snacks: Apple and a small amount of popcorn

So this weekend is the "Real Challenge". Weekends are always the hardest when it comes to eating, especially this weekend, we’re around family that doesn’t really eat "healthy". So far I’m doing alright, its hard. But it is all a part of life, so if I can get through it this once, I can do it a thousand times!

How do you manage your eating habits on the weekend or around family?

We’re just at the lake right now, weather tomorrow is supposed to be gorgeous so I’m hoping to be able to get my tan on.

I’m out-skees for the night. I will see you all tomorrow!

Dinner for Schmucks

July 30, 2010 in 100 Day Challenge, Breakfast, Lunch, Movies, Other, Snack, Supper, Tracking Calories, funny | No comments

Day 9:

Workout: Nadda

Food: UNKNOWN calories consumed

Morning Snack: couple pistachios

Snacks: blueberries and a cheese string

Supper: Egg salad sandwich

Snacks: Movie theatre popcorn, and cherries

Tonight we went to Dinner For Schmucks, I really enjoyed the movie. It was nice to get out and go to a movie, it has been so long! The last movie we probably would have went to was Avatar in 3D.

My camera was dead, so I didn’t have any pictures from today. Short and sweet post again.

Happy Long Weekend to all my Canadian readers! Hopefully you have beautiful weather, and enjoy yourself.

tgiAf

July 29, 2010 in 100 Day Challenge, Breakfast, Snack, Supper, Tracking Calories, Vegetarian | No comments

No its not a spelling error. tgiAf = Thank God It’s ALMOST Friday.

Day 8:

Workout: Nadda

Food: 1350 calories consumed

Breakfast: yogurt covered raisins and pistachios

Snacks: Blueberries (and yet another blue-photo shoot)

Supper: Garden Veggie Pizza

Evening snack: mixed fruit and cheese string

I’ve been writing a test all evening, so I am really pooped. Good night.

surrounded by oompa loompas

July 28, 2010 in 100 Day Challenge, Cats, Lunch, Snack, Supper, Tracking Calories, birthday | No comments

Day 7 :

Workout: 1 solid hour physical labour at work

Food: 1238 calories consumed

Breakfast: yogurt covered raisins and pistachios

Lunch: pear

Daisy had to get in on the photo-action as well.

Snacks: Cheese string and blueberries

Supper: Cheese & Veggie wrap from Mystic Java

Evening Snacks: Cheese string, blueberries, Real Dairy Vanilla Ice Cream

If you didn’t notice, I LOVE my blueberries. Just hope I don’t turn blue and get surrounded by oompa loompas, they scared me!

Welcome to the end of Week 1 in my 100 Day Get Healthy Challenge, it has gone really well for me and I am excited to keep going with this challenge. This so far has been a very good experience, I am learning more about myself and bettering myself and my health for the long-haul.

Have a great night!